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War Requiem

1989, Movie, NR, 93 mins

War Requiem: Review

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Marshalling an astonishing parade of images--brutal, exquisite, erotic, and painterly by turns--avant-garde director Derek Jarman supplies visual counterpoint to Benjamin Britten's masterwork, the 1961 oratorio War Requiem. Jarman's hallucinatory vision of war draws on the life and verse of WWI poet Wilfred Owen, who was killed on a French battlefield two weeks before the Armistice. Owen's preoccupations--e.g., the Christ-like martyrdom of soldiers, the interplay of sexualit... read more leave a comment

War Requiem: Cast & Details

Year: 1989
Rated NR
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Cast
 Nathaniel Parker: Wilfrid Owen
Tilda Swinton: Nurse
Laurence Olivier: Old Soldier
Patricia Hayes: Mother
Rohan McCullough: Enemy Mother
Nigel Terry: Abraham

 

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